noun

Tradition had it that the island was rich in game (reindeer, polar bears, sables, marten, fish, and certain monsters - perhaps walrus), and that it abounded in marble, crystals, and so on.

Then patrol the shorelines to observe sables and the world's biggest brown bears, and to scout potential nature-reserve sites.

He wrote, ‘The principal riches of Kamchatka consist in the great number of wild beasts: among them are foxes, sables, stone foxes, hares, marmots, ermines, weasels, wolves, reindeer, wild and tame, and stone rams.’

noun

For instance, the use of the word sable to describe the skin color of her race imparts a suggestion of rarity and richness that also makes affiliation with the group of which she is a part something to be desired and even sought after.

The pants were plain enough, tight, but of a good silk in a rich sable.

He would have liked to have seen her sable colored hair in a less formal style.